Author: F.W. Woolworth CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir, F. W. Woolworth Co
Author: F.W. Woolworth CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Skyscraper and the City
Author: Gail FenskePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241416
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
The National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Pamphlets in American History
Author: Henry BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Printers' Ink
Author: Printers' Ink; the ... Magazine of Advertising, Management and Sales
Author: The Commercial & Financial Chronicle ...
Author: A Sixpenny Romance
Author: Paul SeatonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780956382702
Category : Chain stores
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description